"Here?"
Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up at once. He leaned forward, his gaze fixed on the mist-shrouded canyon as though his perfectly ordinary eyes could truly see through that thick veil of fog.
Just then, the white mist dispersed.
As if an invisible hand had lifted the gauze curtain draped over it, the canyon gradually revealed its true face, inch by inch. It was deep—so deep that one's soles itched after just one glance downward.
Amid the shadows at the bottom of the canyon lay a vast marsh, barely visible. The surface of its blackish-green sludge gleamed with an oily sheen, while the stench of decay surged up with the wind, as if something had been rotting in there for a very, very long time.
Then he saw the snakes.
Red-spotted Pythons slithered down along the cliff walls, their thick bodies wedged into cracks in the rock. The rasping sound of scales scraping stone melded into one continuous murmur, as though the entire mountainside were whispering. Lu Mingfei had seen this kind of snake before—
The QQ avatar of the online user "Scarlet Naga" was one of these things. At first, he had even thought the Red-spotted Python in that picture looked kind of cute—maybe because Naga's voice was so pleasant—but now, all he wanted to say was: Cute my ass.
Those snakes were absurdly huge. Even the smallest were over twenty meters long, while the largest looked as if they had crawled out of a nightmare—more than thirty meters in length, their bodies as thick as the holes left by uprooted utility poles.
They slowly slithered downward. Every now and then, one would raise its head, its scarlet tongue flicking through the air. Its hissing sounded like a rusty iron gate being slowly pushed open.
Lu Mingfei was about